Campaigners claim victory after ruling on Heathrow third runway

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The Government denied today that its flagship transport policy was in disarray after a High Court judge ordered it to review the decision to build a third runway at Heathrow.

A coalition of local councils, residents and green groups had argued that the expansion of Europe’s busiest airport was at odds with the UK’s environmental targets under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

The Government had argued that it attached proper environmental conditions to the project when it decided to support it as a matter of policy in 2003. Ministers eventually gave the go-ahead in January last year for a third